Sabari

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Sabari
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Directed by Suresh
Written bySuresh
Pattukottai Prabhakar (dialogues)
Produced by Salem Chandrasekharan
Starring Vijayakanth
Jyorthirmayi
Malavika
CinematographyY. N. Murali
Edited by G. Sasikumar
Music by Mani Sharma
Production
company
Release date
  • 17 March 2007 (2007-03-17)
Running time
167 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Sabari is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by Suresh. It stars Vijayakanth as the title character with Jyothirmayi, Malavika and Pradeep Rawat in supporting roles. The film was released on 17 March 2007 to mixed reviews.

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Plot

Sabarivasan (Vijayakanth) is a doctor by profession and cannot tolerate injustice by any means. Nandhini (Jyothirmayi), a college student, meets Sabari and falls in love with him. Eventually they both get married. Vajravelu (Rawat) is a local criminal working for a minister (Mahadevan). Vajravelu's brother-in-law Ezhumalai (Aryan) is arrested by the police for a brutal murder. While trying to escape on the way to court, he is shot by a policeman. Vajravelu's henchmen take Ezhumalai to Sabari and force him to operate. Sabari removes the bullet, but he beats up all the henchmen and produces Ezhumalai to the police. Ezhumalai is sentenced to death and is hanged.

Vajravelu is angry and vows revenge. Vajravelu comes out on bail and kills Sabari's father (Delhi Ganesh). He also kidnaps Nandhini. Sabari fights against Vajravelu and saves Nandhini. On the way back to the hospital, Sabari is stabbed by Vajravelu's wife (Aishwarya). Vajravelu and his henchmen arrive and injure Sabari. They leave thinking Sabari is dead, but he is saved and admitted to hospital. Knowing this, Vajravelu comes in search of Sabari. Sabari fights them back and kills Vajravelu.

Cast

Production

The film was launched at AVM Studios in 2006. [1] Shooting was done at locations in India including Chennai, Pondicherry and Rameswaram. [2] Songs for the film were shot in Hong Kong. [3]

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Mani Sharma. [4]

No.SongSingersLyrics
1"Aalayamani"Kalyani Menon Na. Muthukumar
2"Aavana Aakkana" Tippu, Sujatha Mohan
3"Om Ennum" Ranjith, Naveen, Rahul Nambiar
4"Orumurai Sonnal"Naveen, Bhargavi
5"Osama Osama" A. V. Ramanan, Ranjith, Naveen Kabilan

Critical reception

Indiaglitz wrote, "It's Vijayakanth all the way who with his brainy and brawny ways restores order in the society." [5] Behindwoods wrote, "All in all, disappointing is too kind a word to use for this kind of a movie. It is hard to imagine what the director, actor and producer had in mind when the movie was made." It summed up, "Sabari: an absolute dud." [6] The hindu wrote "Now having said all these you can only add that Vijayakanth could have gone in for an innovative storyline, far removed from the run-of-the-mill rut". [7] Lajjavathi praised Vijayakanth for doing an action film without politics and praised Suresh for racy screenplay and called Pattukottai Prabhakar's dialogues as sharp but felt if Malavika's portions, unnecessary songs were removed and some of the plots were trimmed, this Sabari would have been talked about even more. [8] Chennai Online wrote "Whether it's a lawyer, a cop or a doctor he is playing, it doesn't seem to matter much. For it's the same predictable and cliched scenario that Vijaykanth goes through. Which again doesn't speak very highly of the director's effort to present a fare that is refreshing or exciting". [9]

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